[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2006]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR316.301]

[Page 171]
 
                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
                CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
 
PART 316_TEMPORARY AND TERM EMPLOYMENT--Table of Contents
 
                        Subpart C_Term Employment
 
Sec. 316.301  Purpose and duration.




Subparts A-B [Reserved]

                        Subpart C_Term Employment

Sec.
316.301 Purpose and duration.
316.302 Selection of term employees.
316.303 Tenure of term employees.
316.304 Trial period.

                 Subpart D_Temporary Limited Employment

316.401 Purpose and duration.
316.402 Procedures for making temporary appointments.
316.403 Designation of provisional appointments.

Subpart E [Reserved]

   Subpart F_Appointment Without Competitive Examination in Rare Cases

316.601 Appointment without competitive examination in rare cases.

    Subpart G_Retention of Incumbents of Positions Brought Into the 
                           Competitive Service

316.701 Public or private enterprise taken over by Government.
316.702 Excepted positions brought into the competitive service.
316.703 Effect on tenure of position change of status quo employees.

Subpart H [Reserved]

    Authority: 5 U.S.C. 3301, 3302; E.O. 10577, 3 CFR, 1954-1958 Comp., 
p. 218.

    Source: 33 FR 12423, Sept. 4, 1968, unless otherwise noted.

Subparts A-B [Reserved]


    Effective Date Note: At 70 FR 72067, Dec. 1, 2005, in part 316, 
subpart C was amended by removing the word ``readjustment'' and adding 
in its place the word ``recruitment'' wherever it appears, effective 
Jan. 3, 2005.


    (a) An agency may make a term appointment for a period of more than 
1 year but not more than 4 years to positions where the need for an 
employee's services is not permanent. Reasons for making a term 
appointment include, but are not limited to: project work, extraordinary 
workload, scheduled abolishment, reorganization, contracting out of the 
function, uncertainty of future funding, or the need to maintain 
permanent positions for placement of employees who would otherwise be 
displaced from other parts of the organization. Agencies may extend 
appointments made for more than 1 year but less than 4 years up to the 
4-year limit in increments determined by the agency. The vacancy 
announcement should state that the agency has the option of extending a 
term appointment up to the 4-year limit.
    (b) OPM may authorize exceptions beyond the 4-year limit when the 
extension is clearly justified and is consistent with applicable 
statutory provisions. Requests to make and/or extend appointments beyond 
the 4-year limit must be initiated by the employing office and sent to 
the appropriate OPM service center.

[63 FR 63783, Nov. 17, 1998]